Elie Wiesel Quotes

That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.

Elie Wiesel

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• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

  

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• The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

  

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• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

  Becky G
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• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  

  Vera Wang
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• I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.

  

  Kate Moss
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  • Always
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• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

  Daddy Yankee
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• We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Work
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• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• I think human societies tend to be problematic.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
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• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  

  Jack London
  • Book
  • Purpose
  • Beauty

• I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Up
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  • Enough

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
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  • Brain

• I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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• My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • Country

• There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
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• The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe.

  

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• What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Dangerous

• A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

  

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  • God

• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.

  

  Elie Wiesel